Mihaela Bronić Institute of Public Finance Zagreb, Croatia GIFT Stewards Meeting, Workshop and Learning Visit on Public Participation Portugal, October 15-17, 2018 Mihaela Bronić Institute of Public Finance Zagreb, Croatia

Institute of Public Finance and GIFT IPF’s work has benefited from the GIFT‘s network by: using GIFT's resources such as public participation guide learning from others experiences due to participating in the peer learning activities, workshops and using feedback provided by the Coordination Team… strengthening IPF’s relationship with the Croatian Ministry of Finance

To what extent information technologies, open data and digital tools have supported your efforts in increasing openness and public engagement? IPF promotes online local budget transparency with the long-term project - annually measuring how many key local budget documents has each of 568 LGUs published online IPF publishes newsletters, press releases, etc. (with downloadable excel tables for further use) and sends them to more than 2,000 email addresses scientific articles, online and free of charge, in IPF’s journal „Public Sector Economics”

Motivating citizens on budgets Successful examples at the national level are rare, but some do exist, e.g. Experts Pre-Budget Consultations Through the Commission on Fiscal Policy Economic and Social Council  multi-sectoral representatives give opinions on the Executive’s Budget Proposal and monitors implementation of the annual budget

Your organization's gift to GIFT Continuous promotion of local budget transparency OLBI project Guides to the Budget for the Citizens of the City of Zagreb During 2018-2019 two additional projects Money watch – civil society guarding the budget for Institute Alternativa, Montenegro; the aim is to contribute to fight against corruption by more efficient control of public spending citizens guides for CSOs and executive branch Open budget school for policymakers, CSOs and media WeBudget - from transparency to participation for CSO „Ministry of Space“, Serbia aimed at creating visualization solutions for local budgets organization of „budget schools“ in three cities

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